User blog comment:Youtubegirl6114/Pokérants Episode 1:Pokémon I dislike/@comment-32358261-20171110052853

I accept your opinion but I disagree with it.

1. It gets a lot of attention but I think it’s because it’s gen 1. Also it’s dragon(sort of). How would pokemon even start without a simple dragon. Kid sees dragon, they like it.

In competitive, it’s awful without mega. It’s quad rock weakness is bad but simply having a quad weakness won’t make a Pokémon awful

2. I’m neutral with primarina. It gets moderate popularity. Often mixed. From people who thinks it’s an ugly clown to beautiful siren

3 and 4. Like charizard, it’s gen 1. This is to make sure early players got hooked to the game and to keep these older players into the game. Without it pokemon would lose over half of their fan base.

Pokemon is marketed to children but it has a whole new side for older players.

5. Gen 5 pokemon are not badly designed for the most part. Of course you have a few unoriginal garbodor and vaniluxe and most are just gen 1 clones.

This is just genwunner (the rejection of all except gen 1) thinking. It has plenty of cool designs like haxorus, excadrill, galvantula to name a few. Anyway other gens also have that one awful Pokémon. Muk and voltorb are also simple too. Just love all pokemon. Yes even luvdisc, simisear, klefki too.

The fact it had a few clones is because this gen was the soft reset of Pokémon. It brought Pokémon to the new generation of players. In some ways it was a mirror of Kanto but more refined.

This is just my view. Your views probably won’t change but hopefully you understand why gamefreak made these choices